The most-trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American Literature features a cover-to-cover revision. The ninth edition introduces new General Editor Robert Levine and three new-generation editors who have reenergised the volume across the centuries. Fresh scholarship, new authors—with an emphasis on contemporary writers—new topical clusters and a new ebook make the Norton Anthology an even better teaching tool and an unmatched value for students.
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A responsive, refreshed and media-rich revision of the market-leading anthology of American literature.
37 COMPLETE LONGER WORKS The Norton Anthology of American Literature includes more major works than any other anthology of American literature. The ninth edition offers 37 complete longer texts of which 2—Long Day's Journey into Night and A Streetcar Named Desire—are exclusives and 3—Nella Larsen's Passing, Abraham Cahan's Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto and Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust—are newly added. NEW SELECTIONS, HIGHLIGHTED BY 8 NEW CONTEMPORARY WRITERS The ninth edition introduces 13 new authors, among them 8 contemporary writers—Lydia Davis, George Saunders, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Tracy K. Smith, Edward P. Jones, Frank Bidart and Natasha Trethewey—as well as classic writers like Constance Fenimore Woolson, Patricia Highsmith, Nathanael West, John Rollin Ridge and Thomas Harriot. Selections for a host of frequently assigned authors—Hawthorne, Irving, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Twain, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Hurston, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and many others—have been revised and refreshed in light of instructors' requests. FIVE NEW LECTURE-LENGTH CONTEXTUAL CLUSTERS Designed to be teachable in a class period or two, these groupings of short texts focus on cultural issues and literary forms and movements. New clusters include "Science and Technology in the Pre-Civil War Nation", "Becoming an American in the Gilded Age", "Voices of Native America", "Varieties of Religious Experience", and "Ethnographic and Naturalist Writings". THE APPARATUS YOU TRUST—EXTENSIVELY REVISED FOR CONTEMPORARY STUDENTS Under the direction of new General Editor Robert Levine, the editors have made root-and-branch improvements to apparatus across the volumes to reflect both new scholarship and changing classroom interests. Period introductions and many headnotes have been extensively revised; hundreds of annotations and glosses fine-tuned; and bibliographies carefully updated. UNBEATABLE VALUE Instructors can allow students to choose between the print text and the ebook—or they can give students access to both by packaging the ebook with the print anthology at no additional cost.
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ISBN
9780393264548
Publisert
2017-02-28
Utgave
9. utgave
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Vendor
Ww Norton & Co
Vekt
2359 gr
Høyde
239 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
74 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

Robert S. Levine (Ph.D. Stanford; General Editor and Editor, 1820–1865) is Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism; The Lives of Frederick Douglas; Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies; and (upcoming from Norton) The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He has edited a number of books, including The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Norton Critical Editions of Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables and Melville’s Pierre. Levine has received fellowships from the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 the American Literature Section of the MLA awarded him the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies. Michael A. Elliott (Ph.D. Columbia; Editor, 1865–1914) is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of English and American Studies and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University. He is the author of The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism and Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. He is also the co-editor of two additional books: The American Novel, 1865–1940 (volume 6 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English) and American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader. Sandra M. Gustafson (Ph.D. UC Berkeley; Editor, Beginnings to 1820) is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic and Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America as well as co-editor of Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900. Since 2008 she has edited the MLA-affiliated journal Early American Literature. She is a faculty affiliate of Notre Dame's Center for Civil and Human Rights and a faculty fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Amy Hungerford (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins; Editor, 1945 to the Present) is the Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. She is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification; Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960; and, most recently, Making Literature Now. She is a founder of the Post45 collective and site editor of the group's open access journal on post–1945 American literature and culture (post45.org). Mary Loeffelholz (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of English and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the author of Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory; Experimental Lives: Women and Literature, 1900–1945; and, most recently, From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. With Martha Nell Smith, she edited the Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. Her essays have appeared in such journals as American Literary History, English Literary History, the Yale Journal of Criticism, and Modern Language Quarterly.